A validated ontology for meta-level control domain

A validated ontology for meta-level control domain

The main objective of meta-level control is to decide what and how much reasoning to do instead of what actions to do. Meta-level control domain involves a large number of processes and actions with terminology that become confusing. For this reason, an ontology to describe the semantic relationships and hierarchical structure of terms related to metacognition is proposed. The ontology was developed based on definitions found in the literature. Experts validated the ontology using a survey. The validation result indicated that the design of an ontology based on the meta-level control domain allows reusing and sharing knowledge defining a common vocabulary.